for 60 bucks...did i done good?works great, kinda cool...thinking i'm gonna try a boss harmonist on the dry output and see how sick i can REALLY get.

Sounds like a good deal to me.

Combining my Foxrox Octron, DigiTech GNX4's intelligent harmonizing, heavy compression, and sometimes also my Boss RT-20 Leslie/rotary-sim, I can get this great, warmly glowing, kinda sorta Tony Banks/Genesis/organ kinda sound; while I can only play single-notes through that set-up without getting a big blurgey noise smear, and best way up high above the 12th-fret, it sounds like chords anyways.

Originally Posted By: pinkjimiphoton

it says to put distortion after it, but to me, that sounds like absolute poo...any suggestions? to me, it needs dirt BEFORE it to sound good.

In general, I agree that digital pitch-shifting of any kind that I've tried sounds much better after overdrive/distortion/fuzz/etc. than before.

However, FWIW here, analog octave-fuzzes (up or down) like my Octron, MXR Blue Box, etc. seem to me to sound great before overdrive or distortion, whether from a pedal or amp; perhaps better than after.

it says to put distortion after it, but to me, that sounds like absolute poo...any suggestions?

Hmn, you might also try splitting the signal after your distortion, sending one out to the Whammy, and the other around it to be re-combined in parallel after the Whammy by one means or another, or going 'stereo', more or less.

Bill's suggestion of a compressor post-distortion/pre-Whammy probably would help the Whammy's tracking, and would likely work particularly well in the split/parallel scheme, leaving the un-Whammied side un-compressed, as well...

Another idea: connect the Whammy to the effects loop in the amp (provided there is one)... ?

First of all, $60 is a GREAT deal on a working Whammy. On the question of Distortion before or after, I notice that Boss multi-effects always have Pitch Shift/Harmonist effects in the Modulation block, which comes after the OD/Dist effects. While this arrangement is probably due to the DSP demands of those effects, Boss also suggests using a Pitch Shift pedal after OD/Dist pedals in a signal chain - look in the back of those Boss Guide Books.

Just went and dug out the manual for my Digitech Studio 5000, essentially a last-generation DHP 66 - there's a 2-Voice Harmony w/Distortion effect, and once again, it's Distortion into P/S. I say pile on the dirt, Jimi!

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Originally Posted By: WPsmith

On the question of Distortion before or after, I notice that Boss multi-effects always have Pitch Shift/Harmonist effects in the Modulation block, which comes after the OD/Dist effects. While this arrangement is probably due to the DSP demands of those effects, Boss also suggests using a Pitch Shift pedal after OD/Dist pedals in a signal chain - look in the back of those Boss Guide Books.

Just went and dug out the manual for my Digitech Studio 5000, essentially a last-generation DHP 66 - there's a 2-Voice Harmony w/Distortion effect, and once again, it's Distortion into P/S. I say pile on the dirt, Jimi!